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Profile
Ran is a partner in our firm and co-manages our litigation and dispute resolution department. Ran has over 20 years of experience handling complex commercial disputes. His work includes handling some of the most significant cases in the commercial field in Israel, as well as major international arbitration cases.
Ran specializes in the areas of corporate, securities and capital markets, class actions, contracts, media and communications, derivative actions, tenders, High Court of Justice petitions and administrative petitions.
Ran also serves as an arbitrator and a mediator in commercial disputes.
Ran obtained his LL.B from Tel Aviv University (magna cum laude; Dean’s List), and his LL.M from Harvard Law School. He clerked at the Supreme Court for the Honorable Deputy President of the Supreme Court (retired) Shlomo Levin.
The prestigious legal guide Chambers Global ranks Ran as one of the leading lawyers in Israel in the dispute resolution field and quotes his clients who describe him as “very smart, thorough and responsive”. The legal guide Legal 500 quotes Ran’s clients describing him as “smart, eloquent and always very well-prepared”.
Representative Experience
- Representing PwC Israel in a class action lawsuit filed against it and Delek Group in the amount of hundreds of millions of ILS, alleging the deprivation of minority unit holders from the public as a result of a merger between the owners of the Tamar and Leviathan gas fields.
- Representing Rami Levy Chain Stores Hashikma Marketing, Israel’s second largest retail chain, and its officers, in a class action lawsuit regarding allegations of publishing misleading information in its financial reports.
- Representing Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in various legal proceedings, including administrative petitions related to large-scale tenders it conducts or participates in, as well as significant commercial disputes to which it is a party.
- Representing a leading global corporation in the travel retail and duty-free sector in an ICC arbitration before an arbitral tribunal, in a claim worth hundreds of millions USD filed against it.
- Representing Electra Infrastructure, one of the leading infrastructure companies in Israel, in a complex dispute related to a mega-infrastructure construction project.
- Representing plaintiffs in two pioneering class actions lawsuits worth hundreds of millions of USD against Apple Inc. and Google LLC, concerning anti-trust violations and excessive pricing in the operation of their applications stores.
- Representing Ilana Dayan, one of Israel’s most prominent journalists, in one of the most influential cases ever in Israel regarding freedom of speech and the protection of investigative journalism.
Biography
Bar Admissions
Israel, 2002
Education
LL.M., Harvard Law School, 2003.
LL.B. (magna cum laude), Tel Aviv University, 2001.
Prior Experience
Law Clerk to the Honorable Justice Shlomo Levin of the Israeli Supreme Court, 2001 – 2002.
Languages
Hebrew, English
